Simon Guilfoyle
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- My Trip to America – A Systems Thinker’s Diary
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Tag Archives: gaming
Why ‘Year-To-Date’ is Rubbish
‘Year-to-date’ figures are often used in performance frameworks, both in the public and private sectors. In policing, ‘year-to-date’ figures are regularly used to track the number of reported crimes at any given point in the year, supposedly as an indicator of whether the police … Continue reading
My Trip to America – A Systems Thinker’s Diary
I’ve just got back from America, and because I don’t have the ability to switch off the systems thinking part of my brain, I kept noticing ‘systemsy’ stuff whilst I was there, so I thought I’d share a few observations … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged flow, gaming, lean, management, purpose, systems thinking, variation, waste
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Must Try Harder
Remember the heady days of last year’s ‘Bad Performance Measurement On Tour’ blog posts, where objects of ridicule such as targets for dog poo collection were cruelly exposed and roundly mocked for your delectation? Well, that series sparked a call-to-arms for … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged comparisons, education, gaming, league tables, management, performance management, schools, systems thinking, targets, teaching
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Troubled Thinking
Well, the ridiculous examples of bad performance measurement keep flooding in. I’ve lost count of whether we should be on Episode 5 or 6 by this point, so I’ll just stick to new titles from now on. This time, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged deming, education, gaming, health, incentives, management, outcomes, payment by results, PbR, performance management, society, systems, systems thinking, targets, unemployment
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The Perfect Target
Okay, so those of you who have read my blogs will be familiar with my views on numerical targets in policing – in short I argue that they should all be abolished, without exception. This is because they generate perverse … Continue reading
Posted in Systems thinking
Tagged command and control, gaming, performance, police, spc, systems, targets
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